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Aaack! I hate these three days with no baseball! I was actually reduced to watching the stupid HR derby last night, just to get a taste of some baseball. I wished that my nephew had a tee-ball game yesterday ... watching a bunch of kids standing around, picking their noses and wearing their mitts on their heads seemed more like actual baseball than listening to Chris Berman prattle on about the dimensions of AT&T park.

In the lead up to the HRD on ESPN, they had some great home run calls. Two by Trupiano. ESPN didn't get the memo denying his existence, I guess.

Talk about aimless...I heard part of the HRD on the radio [Dave Schulman]. He acted like Jose Rios had just dropped out of the sky. Nobody told him what the rules were, so he was calling a contest not knowing how the winner would be determined. And what's with all the breaks between batters? The alchoholic 1st base coaches they have throwing BP need 5 minutes to warm up??. Then, once the hitting started, they go down to the field for an interview, since the TV people got the same people during the break in the action. It made no sense to me.

ESPN screws up everything it touches. Only that damn network could stretch batting practice between 8 guys out over 3 plus hours.
That's why guys like Papi and Bonds don't want to do it, because they have to stand around 45 minutes between turns.

I haven't watched the AS-Game for the past 10 years but I'm somehow drawn to it this year.

I'm psychologically more invested in this year's Sox team than any in recent memory, including 2004 (the excitement there, of course, came toward the end of the season, and I was wrapped up in it along with everone else).

I have some neurotic need to follow every game and, given the four-day dearth, I've somehow convinced myself that the All-Star game is a satisfactory proxy.

And I didn't even watch the Derby this year, but Berman's calls grate on my memory like it happened yesterday.

Saw video of the Ortiz/Guerrero bat ceremony/switch-up which led directly to Guerrero's victory, seemingly. Since that was almost certainly the highlight of the evening, I'm glad I saw it...and nothing else.